Do Billionaires Ever Do Redemption ?

ll missing the punchline, but she remained somber

serious, no

uck, Julianna. What do you expect me to say?" I was prett

, let alone to ask for you to help me with something so diabolical. But I hoped-I h

still, it stung. Stupidly. Like what answer would I have preferred? That sh

e done a better job at

he bitterness in my t

ng platitude. Too fucking little, too fucking l

e was biting back, I was more interested in controlling the conversation

the other, and I wondered if she knew how sultry she looke

nize her femininity when she was just a kid. All these

r that. That she'd

e really was considering murder-which she couldn't be. Not really. The girl I knew wouldn't have been capable, and people didn't change that much-but if she was bol

she cringed, she didn't remark on my c

I rea

ple, know what a

nster he was. Sev

think he'

didn't think she'd changed. But the fact of t

not you. You're n

o use it over me. "Don't pretend you fucking know anything about me. Do it again, and this conversation

self with apologies or to take a ste

"It was an observation based on your actions. You tried to press charges aga

ow that then you know that there was no case to be had. Might have

elieved me any more t

you could know tha

oken. "Which is why he has to

main reason my case was thrown out was because the accusations looked like an attempt at retribution against a ma

I'd appeared on the scene. From what she'd told me

consider offing her old man. But all we'd had to do was make it

e chance to walk away,

s roof anymore. Not subject to his discipline. Surely you aren't j

"What he did to me-he wasn't

was just me."

ster Stark knew how to fuck with people in other ways. He was a true sadist-not particular about what methods he used to bring about

ing was even harder to prose

t the quest

dropped her bombshell, she lo

to have this conversation with you,

me. "Isn't it better if I do

want to hear about it first from a cop who comes knocking at my door asking questions, so you mig

shit in my life. Everything that has ever mattered to me, e

e to think she was talking about us. That she was talking about

, like daug